Catalogue description Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company

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Reference: RAIL 296
Title: Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company
Description:

This series consists of stock and share registers, miscellaneous books and records and minutes and reports of the Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company.

Date: 1864-1870
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HWM
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company, 1865-1870

Physical description: 9 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated 5th July 1865 under Act (28 & 29 Vic cap.244). Railway was abandoned by virtue of Sections 19 etc. of North Eastern Railway Company (Leyburn and Hawes Branch etc.) Act 4th July 1870, and Hawes and Melmerby Railway Company dissolved, North Eastern Railway Company being authorised by same act to make a railway from Leyburn to Hawes.

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